Sustainability Research Guide
[Printed volumes in the Castleton
State College Library are in brown
type.
Blue entries are links to
electronic resources.]
Finding Books
Use the
Vermont
State Colleges Online Catalog to locate books.
Official subject headings that may be useful
include--
but are not limited to--the following:
Conservation of natural resources
Environmental…education, management, policy, protection, responsibility,
sciences
Natural resources
Recycling (waste, etc.)
Sustainable…agriculture, buildings, development, fisheries,
forestry, horticulture, etc.
Research Databases and Indexes for Finding Journal Articles*
General
Academic Search Premier
Alternative
Press Index
CQ Researcher
Expanded Academic ASAP
InfoTrac OneFile
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Subject-specific
AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access)
BasicBIOSIS
Business Source Premier
Environment
Complete
GeoRef
*Note: Links
to full text of some articles will be available immediately.
If there is NO link to full text, check Castleton's Journal Holdings List
for availability.
Handbooks, Research Guides, and Bibliographies
Island Press
Bibliography of Environmental Literature (REF 333.7016
Is4)
Energy and
American Society (REF 333.79 M613e)
McGraw-Hill
Recycling Handbook (REF 363.7282 M17)
Recycling Sourcebook (363.7282 R2457)
Information
Sources in Science and Technology (REF 500.16
H946i)
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Our Earth's Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and
Land-Cover Change (REF
333.7313 Ou72)
Dictionary
of Energy (REF 333.7903 D561)
Wiley Encyclopedia
of Energy and the Environment (REF 333.7903
W648)
Alternative
Energy: Facts, Statistics,
and Issues (REF 333.794
B454a)
Cooper’s Comprehensive
Environmental Desk Reference (REF 363.7
C784)
Environmental
Literacy (REF 363.7 D26e)
Encyclopedia
of Global Change (REF 363.7 En195)
Conservation
and Environmentalism (REF 363.7003 C765)
Dictionary
of Ecology and Environmental Science (REF 363.7003
D561)
The Green Encyclopedia (REF 363.7003 F847g)
Encyclopedia
of Environmental Science (REF 363.7003 M747e)
Environmental
Encyclopedia (REF 363.7033 En895)
Choose to Reuse (REF 363.7282 G564c)
Pollution A-Z (REF 363.7303 P765p)
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia
of Science and Technology (REF 503 M178)
Van Norland’s
Scientific Encyclopedia (REF 503 V338)
Encyclopedia
of Climate and Weather (REF 551.503 En19)
Encyclopedia
of Environmental Biology (REF 577 En19)
Encyclopedia
of Forest Sciences (REF 634.903
En195)
Encyclopedia
of the Developing World (REF 909.0972403 En197)
Encyclopedia
of World Geography (REF 910.3 En198)
Atlases, Guides, Data, and Statistics
The New Atlas of Planet Management (REF 333.7 N42)
World Resources: A
Guide to the Global Environment
(REF 333.7 W893) (Newer
editions on the website of the World
Resources Institute)
State of the Nation's Ecosystems: Measuring the Lands, Waters,
and Living Resources of the United States (REF 333.72 st293)
State of the World: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress
Toward a Sustainable Society
(REF 338.9 St29)
Well-Being of Nations
(REF 363.7 P924)
Global Environment Outlook 3 (REF 363.70526 G51)
Statistical Record of the Environment (REF 363.73 D25s)
AAAS Atlas of Population & Environment (REF 363.9 H247a)
World Water Resources at the Beginning of the 21st
Century (REF 553.7 W893)
Data Distribution Centre (DDC) of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Envirofacts Data Warehouse
from the U.S. EPA
UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Maps and Graphics Library
Historical
Resource
Great Events from History: Ecology and the Environment Series (REF 363.7 G798)
Other Recommended Resources
Librarians’
Index to the Internet: Environment
National
Library for the Environment from the U.S. National Council on Science and the Environment
Partnerships
for Sustainable Development from the United Nations Commission
on Sustainable Development
World Resources Institute,
including full text of some of their publications
WorldWatch Institute
Sustainability,
from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
Sustainability:
Science, Practice, & Policy (SSPP): An open-access e-journal for sustainable solutions
Citing Sources
MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers (REF 808.02 G25m)
Scott Foresman Handbook for
Writers (REF 808.042 H127s)
"How
Do I Document Sources From the World Wide Web. . . "
from the Modern Language Association Homepage.
NoodleBib
An electronic citation management system. Access limited to
CSC students, faculty, staff.
Getting Help
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